Pedavadlapudi is a village in

Guntur district Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative seat of the district is located at Guntur, the largest city of the district in terms of area and with a po ...

of the

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Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. It is located in

Mangalagiri mandal Mangalagiri mandal is one of the 57 mandals in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is under the administration of Tenali revenue division and the headquarters are located at Mangalagiri town part of Mangalagiri Tadepalle ...

part of

Mangalagiri Tadepalle Municipal Corporation Mangalagiri Tadepalli Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs Mangalagiri and Tadepalle city's and villages in the corresponding mandals of the Mangalagiri Assembly constituency in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. It is the secon ...

part of

Guntur revenue division Guntur revenue division is an administrative division in the Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It comprises 10 mandals and is one of the two revenue divisions in the district, along with Tenali revenue division, Tenali. Gunt ...

Geography

Pedavadlapudi is situated to the southeast of the mandal headquarters,

Mangalagiri Mangalagiri is a South Suburb of Vijayawada in Guntur district of States and union territories of India, Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The town is a part of Mangalagiri Tadepalle Municipal Corporation and part of Tenali revenue division. It i ...

, at . It is spread over an area of .

Demographics

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, the town had a population of , with 3655 households. The total population constitute, males and females —a sex ratio of 996 females per 1000 males. and children, in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 535 are boys and 555 are girls. The average literacy rate stands at 73.63% with literates, approximately equal to the state average of 67.41%.

Language and religion

About 70% are Hindus and 30% are Muslims and Christians. The official

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in this village is

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. Other minor language is

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

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is used as medium language in education here.

Governance

Pedavadlapudi

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

is the

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of the village. It is divided into wards and each ward is represented by a ward member. Pedavadlapudi is a part of

Mangalagiri assembly constituency Mangalagiri is a constituency in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, representing the state legislative assembly in India. As per the ''Delimitation Orders (2008),'' the constituency covers the mandals of Tadepalle, Mangalagiri and Duggirala ...

. The village forms a part of

Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Andhra Pradesh Capital Region is the metropolitan region area of Andhra Pradesh state capital, the defacto capital city of Andhra Pradesh. Vijayawada is the headquarters and the largest city of the region. It includes the major ancient cities o ...

and is under the jurisdiction of

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. The present MLA of the constituency is ''Alla Ramakrishna Reddy'' of

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. After June 2021. Pedavadlapudi was merged into Mangalagiri to form

under which the village is divided into three Wards. Elections have to be held here in December 2021 as reports

Economy

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is the main occupation of the village. Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a bottling entity of

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is situated in the village. For trading and exporting of agricultural products, there exists an ''Agricultural Market Yard''.

Transport

Tenali Tenali is a city in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Tenali mandal and Tenali revenue division. The city is renowned for art, culture, drama and hence, it is called ''Andhra ...

–

road passes through Pedavadlapudi and the

APSRTC Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) is the state-owned road transport corporation in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its headquarters is located at NTR Administrative Block of RTC House in Pandit Nehru bus station of ...

buses which operates from Tenali bus station to Manglagiri bus station and

Vijayawada Vijayawada, formerly known as Bezawada, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a part of the state's Capital Region. It is the administrative headquarters of the NTR district. Its metropolitan region comprises NT ...

, passes through the village. Pedavadlapudi railway station is administered under

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and is situated on the mutual line of Howrah-Chennai and

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s. A new third line was proposed and sanctioned which passes through this village and a new station building also was sanctioned here. A new station building and new platforms are being built in this station to upgrade it Vijayawada International Airport is about 30 km from this village. A new outer ring road was sanctioned which passes through this village border.

Education

As per the school information report for the academic year 2018–19, the village has a total of 14 schools. These include 8 Zilla Parishad/

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and 6 private schools. Almost the village's literacy rate crosses 65%. A junior college is situated in the village

References

External links

{{Commons category, Pedavadlapudi Villages in Guntur district